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'To Be an Author' : Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1889-1905 by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Robert C. Leitz III is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an attorney and businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, who achieved prominence as a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and lecturer despite the obstacles faced by a man of color during the "Jim

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Author
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. and Robert C. Leitz III
Publisher
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Published
1997
Language
EN
ISBN
9781400864485
Category
biography
Subjects
Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography
Updated
2026-03-25

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